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They receive the news of some of the deportations we're seeing. >> a huge challenge for those bo border cities and towns as well as for the biden administration. >> here with me now with more perspective on this is raoul reyes, an immigration attorney. i want to ask you first about the change in policy. title 42 has expired. title 8 has now taken effect. that does impose harsher penalties for migrants who try to cross into the u.s. illegally. but the process for migrants to seek asylum can be quite lengthy and complicated. do you think the system we have now is sustainable? >> well, basically ...

Border. even in years past, these facilities were known for inhumane conditions. there were very credible reports of abuses, a lack of basic needs being met. so we're going to see more families potentially placed in dete detention. that would be a strain not on on customs and border patrol, but it would cause a lot of unnecessary suffering for the migrants who are in custody. the alternative which the biden administration prefers is to release people on humanitarian parole so they could go and travel to places around the country where they have support networks, where they do have some opportu...

Tough spot not entirely of its own making, because immigration has basically been neglected by multiple administrations. in the beginning, the lifting of title 42 may have been sort of a mixed blessing for the biden administration because it allowed them to hold back at least migrants for the short-term. as we're seeing now, with the court order lifted, it's more like a curse, because we have a perfect storm of increased migration, legal challenges on both sides and widespread dissatisfaction with the biden administration's approach to the issue. >> in terms of the resources the biden administ...

Up to 14,000 per day, do you think that reenforcement of troops and other agents is enough to keep up with demand? >> no, no. in fact, i'm confident in saying that, because i know that the department of homeland security has repeatedly asked congress for additional funding for more surging of resources to the border and congress has not allowed it. to put into perspective the backlogs we're talking about as we look ahead, right now the average asylum case takes 4 1/2 years to resolve. that's just for many of these migrants their cases have not even begun. we're looking at tremendous backlogs n...

Primarily. that continues to be the number one destination because they're know people there or they have resources there. the result will be some of these municipalities, both large and small, struggling to keep their head aboveground in terms of providing housing and opportunities for some of these asylum seekers. this is a polarizing issue. many of them have court dates well in the future. the question is, what will they be able to do? we've seen calls intensify for the biden administration to provide some kind of humanitarian relief and eventually some kind of employment opportunity for th...